Let’s talk about public art!
We love the Bay of Plenty, so how can we activate our public spaces with great art and design?
BOOM! Is a monthly series of talks and workshops for you to hear conversations and inspirational stories from people designing, commissioning and implementing creative public projects and spaces.
BOOM!’s July speaker, Tauranga based artist Darcell Apelu has just been nominated for the prestigious International Award for Public Art, 2019. The award acknowledges specific public art projects with a focus on art-led urbanism, place-making, community building and social practice.
Darcell’s nominated work Generation Exchange retraced the steps of her ancestors in Auckland and Patea. Her practice is informed by her experiences as an afakasi female and she uses her body as a way to facilitate terms of ‘otherness’.
Darcell is a Niuean and NZ European descent born 1990 and raised in Mount Maunganui. She works in mediums such as moving image, sound, performance and installation. She has completed a Masters in Art and Design and Auckland University of Technology and her projects reflects activities within the social climate of New Zealand of the Pacific Body and identity of ‘being other’, she explores the duality of the pacific community with a populace-autobiographical perspective within the western masculine framework.
www.darcellapelu.com
www.instituteforpublicart.org
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